That really wasn't well handled was it MNHQ?

[ASorcererIsAWizardSquared]

Yes, this is a telling off.

Your communication over the Calm Down Jeffrey incident was atrocious.

I find it shocking that you can be sat there, posting to us that all is well and under control when we can see, in front of our very own eyes, that someone was hacking MNHQ posts and editing them, and also posting under posters names and editing other posts as well as deregging and banning other users who insulted them.

The response from you was seriously lacking, on top of your coquettish rubbish about not putting 50p in the meter when you went down over night.

Its not on.

You have a duty to your posters when these things are happening to keep us all informed, we're not stupid and we deserve to be treated with a little more respect. Not fobbed off with half truths and blatant lies.

Well why in hell was it deleted then?!

How odd!

::eye roll::

Apparently it was classed as sock puppeting, which i didnt think about when i posted.. my apologies.

I am the OP.

I still think some people owe the OP an apology!

Those saying MNHQ don't owe anyone anything, they don't, but what they do have is a duty of care for it's users and to protect them from web attacks. Giving out warnings of attacks is par of the course when you run a website, so people can safe guard themselves.

I think it's pretty poor!
They could have just reset passwords a week ago even if they weren't certain he had our data

Yebbut, if they'd done that without knowing what he had and where he was and before they'd locked down his points of entry, then it would have been pointless and we'd all have had to do it again after they'd found all that out.

But yes. It's a bit shit.

everyone had the option to do that any way, which i did, and again today just in case.

Do they even know for sure his point of entry though at this time? Good point.

Or even before a mass reset, they could have gone on the thread and said 'as a precaution we advise changing passwords' - yes, possibly it was too early to tell if it was safe to change passwords, but then it was probably too early to have had the site in write mode. I remain convinced the only reason the site came back is because Jeffrey got bored of his DDOS (not surprising as it's not the most exciting hack in the world unless you've got a load of people kicking off on other forums, as happens when the Playstation Network gets hacked every Christmas).

MaryZ I completely agree with you!

They don't seem to be very clued up at all MaryZ. The fact that they don't seem to think that they could have warned users to change passwords for any sites that they share a password with a week ago, but are focusing on not wanting to tell about the swatting attack speaks volumes IMO.

I went back and looked for the Heartbleed thread. They told users that the site had been affected by heartbleed and they were fixing the issue but there was no need for users to change passwords because no one could possibly have obtained the passwords. Shortly before someone logged in and posted as Justine. They don't seem to have learnt from that at all.

Maryz - I agree with you

Incoming twitter.com/dadsec

I think a lot of people forget that they aren't the customer on a site like this. They are the product.

You can get to the list from Jeffrey's new twitter feed, yes.

I totally agree, seems like the security of the site was not up to much and I haven't eben got an email from HQ about this. Wondered why I couldnt logon!

It links to it, yes Dixie.

I think a lot of people forget that they aren't the customer on a site like this. They are the product

Who by every page we visit make money for Mumsnet, people forget this I think.

On another note, when I volunteered as a moderator on a forum for a people with a specific health condition, we were given training on how to respond and support members during a cyber attack.

Why is the media reporting that no complaint has been received by met police?

Has mumsnet.com not seen these events as a crime to be reported? ????